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FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 



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UNIVERSITY OF 
KENTUCKY 



1866-1916 




Proceedings of semi-centennial cele- 
bration, held in tlie chapel and on the 
grounds of Institution Oct. 14, 1916. 



Published by order of Executive Committee of Board of Trustees 
of University of Kentucky. 



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BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY. 




"THE OPEN DOOR" TO HIGHER EDUCATION. 



In the presence of a large gathering of representative 
citizens and professional men and women of Kentucky and 
other states, including alumni, former students, leaders in edu- 
cational and civic life, the fiftieth anniversary of the founding 
of the University of Kentucky was celebrated in the chapel and 
on the grounds of that institution in Lexington, October 10, 
1916. 

With oratory, feasting, reunions of former students, ath- 
letic contests, pageant, and social gatherings, the occasion was 
at once notable and unique, bringing together the most re- 
markable gathering of friends of the Commonwealth's chief 
institution of learning that had ever assembled upon its his- 
toric grounds. 

The program of the occasion really opened October 13, 
with what is known as the annual tug-of-war between the 
freshman and sophomore classes, followed by a reception the 
same evening for all visiting alumni. 

On the following morning the literary phases of the cele- 
bration were preceded by a procession and pageant of the 
student-body through the streets of the city, followed by lunch, 
served upon the campus, to about one thousand guests and 
friends of the University. The afternoon of the same day was 
consumed with a formal dedication of the institution's athletic 
grounds and a football contest between teams representing the 
University of Kentucky and Vanderbilt University. 

The speakers of the day were: Dr. Charles W. Dabney, 
President of the University of Cincinnati, who spoke on 
"Education the Supreme Issue;" Dr. James Kennedy Patter- 
son, President Emeritus of the University, whose subject was 



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"Fifty Years of the University of Kentucky;" Charles R. 
Brock, of Denver, CoL, distinguished alumnus, who made the 
address presenting to the University, on behalf of the alumni, 
a portrait of Doctor Patterson ; R. C. Stoll, who specially pre- 
sented Doctor Patterson for conference of an honorary de- 
gree ; Professor F. Paid Anderson, Dean of the College of 
Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, who presented the re- 
mainder of the conferees for honorary degrees ; Major John T. 
Geary, of California, alunmus and officer in the United States 
Army, who delivered the address dedicating the athletic field 
to Ricliard C. Stoll, prominent alumnus and member of the 
Board of Trustees, and Governor Augustus Owsley Stanley, 
who made the address accepting the athletic dedicatory tablet 
on behalf of the University and the State. 

The literary ceremonies of the day were opened in the 
chapel of the University with President Henry Stites Barker 
of the University, presiding. 

The Reverend Dr. Richard Henry Crossfield, President of 
Transylvania College, invoked divine plessing in the follow- 
ing : 

Our Heavenly Father, we come to ask thy rich mercy and thy 
fullest grace to abide with us now. We thank thee for what thou 
he.st done for this institution during the past fifty years; for the 
richness in contribution that it has made, not only to our community 
and State, but to our common country. We thank thee for its pres- 
ent success and for its growing and gracious outlook. 

And now we ask thy divine blessing upon the occasion of this 
golden jubilee, to rest on this institution of learning of the State of 
Kentucky, for the good of higher education, in the name of Jesus 
Christ our Lord, Amen. 

Tn his introductory remarks President Barker said: 

We have assembled today, my friends, to celebrate the fiftieth 
anniversary of the University of Kentucky, its Golden Jubilee. In 
order to do this we have assembled the faculty and student body; 
we have called on our old "boys" far and near, and asked them to 
come back and to participate in the joys of this occa.gion. They are 
here. They have come from every point of the compass, and from 
every part of the United States. Like homing pigeons, they have 



OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY 5 

followed their natural instincts on tliis day and returned to The 
Old Kentucky Home, to their Alma Mater. 

We have asked many distinguished guests to participate in this 
ceremony with us. We have brought men here from many walks 
of life for the purpose of presenting to them honorary degrees. 

We have invited to make the leading speech of the occasion one 
of the country's most distinguished educators. We have with us also 
our President Emeritus, whose educational life almost spans that of 
this University, to recite to you its history. None hut him could tell 
it. As President of this University I bid you welcome. We consider 
that you have honored us by coming. We want you to feel that this 
campus is yours; that these ceremonies are in part yours. We want 
you to participate in everything that we have and do in the joy of 
reunion; in the pleasure of revivified friendships; in our exultation, 
and in our pride. 

I have now the pleasure to introduce to you the President of the 
University of Cincinnati, a man of profound scholarship, a thinker, 
leader, educator of few equals in America — Dr. C. W. Dabney. 

President Dabney said: 

It is a great pleasure to bring you the greetings of the people 
of Cincinnati and of her University upon the occasion of your Golden 
Jubilee. Cincinnati is so unfortunate as to be situated on the other 
side of the Ohio River, but she has a beautiful southern exposure and 
receives many genial influences from the Kentucky side. The sun 
that begins at this season of the year to shine upon us in Cincinnati 
from above the southern hills is symbolic of the power and inspira- 
tion which we receive from Kentucky. For we are indebted to you 
for giving us many of your best men to direct our affairs and your 
loveliest women to rule our homes. 

We are glad, also, that while you make Lexington your seat of 
learning, you make Cincinnati your center of trade. We welcome 
your sons with their produce, as we do your daughters with their 
dollars. Five towns on your side of the river supply homes for our 
people and .sites for our factories, and whenever there is anything 
■we want to do and may not do in Cincinnati, we escape to this land 
of liberty. 

Cincinnati is, therefore, sincerely and deeply interested in every- 
thing that makes for the welfare of Lexington. She rejoices in every 
evidence of your progress and congratulates you especially on the 
power and influence attained by your University. 

Like most of the great agricultural states of the South, Ken- 
tucky started late in developing a system of public education. But 



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thanks to the wisdom and courage of some of her sons you now have 
an excellent system of schools, crowned by this great University, 
whose semi-centennial we celebrate. To the men and women, who, 
by their tireless labor and unselfish devotion, have accomplished 
tliese splendid results, we bring our tribute today. To those who 
have labored on the farms or in the shops during this half century 
for the restoraii(in and upbuilding of Kentucky we bring congratula- 
tions, but to those who under great difficulties and discouragements 
have built these schools and this great University we bring the 
highest meed of praise. For they were the true builders of the 
Commonwealth. 

Emerson has truly said that "an institution is the lengthened 
shadow of one man." This is certainly true of this, as of most edu- 
cational institutions. There is one man whose deeds we commem- 
orate today above all others. As we call Thomas Jefferson father of 
the University oi Virginia, Andrew D. White, father of Cornell, and 
Daniel C. Oilman, father of Johns Hopkins University, so the people 
of Kentucky will always call James Kennedy Patterson the father 
of the University of Kentucky. "Pater Universitatis Kentuckiensis" 
Professor William B. Smith has already crowned him in the title of his 
beautiful "Apprf-ciation," and so he will ever be known in American 
history. 

Having the honor of being associated with you for many years 
in the Association of Agricultural Colleges and in other educational 
societies, and having often as a young college president sat at your 
feet to honor you, I ask the privilege of bringing to you, President 
Patterson, the greetings of your colleagues and admirers of the edu- 
cational world, with their congratulations upon your splendid accom- 
plishments in our common cause and their wishes that you may 
have many more blessed years in which to contemplate the results 
of your noble labors. 

No man, ladies and gentlemen, in the history of this State has 
done so much for its education. Few have had so little with which 
to begin such an undertaking, and no one ever encountered more 
difficulties or faced them with more wisdom, courage and devotion. 
It was President Patterson who first educated the people of Ken- 
tucky to an appreciation of the importance of a state university. It 
was he who fought all the battles of the college with the sectarians 
and politicians; he who wrote all the laws and .secured all the ap- 
propriations for it. It was he who, single-handed, contended with 
the legislature and with the courts. It was he who established the 
university in the statutes as well as in the hearts of the people; and 
finally, it was iie who made all the plans, selected all the professors, 
and directed all the interests of the university for forty-one years — - 



OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY 7 

a period of service never equalled before. We shall ever thank 
God for the inspiration of President Patterson's example of devo- 
tion. 

The state university is the real builder of the state. Some may 
think the State of Kentucky is built at Frankfort. Not so. The 
State of Kentucky is built in the homes, schools and churches scat- 
tered all over these green hills and plains, stimulated and guided by 
this university. Having this aim and this work, the state univer- 
sity must be an institution of, by, and for all the people. It is not 
an institution of any party, of any class, of any church. It is not 
the university of the Democratic party, or of the Republican party; 
it is not the college of the farmers only; it is not the college of the 
mechanics only; it is certainly not the college of the rich — and I 
hope it is not the college of the poor exclusively — it is the college 
of all the people. 

Richard Rumbold, whom they slew in the time of James II be- 
cause he was a Democrat, said, in his quaint way, that he never could 
believe "that God had created a few thousand men already booted 
and spurred, with millions of other men already saddled and bridled 
for these few to ride." This is the e.ssence of democracy. Thomas 
Jefferson was our Rumbold in the field of education. He did not be- 
lieve that only a few men were born with talents to be developed and 
that the rest of mankind was to be left to be driven by the few. He 
therefore established the first university of, by and for the people in 
the world. 

The characteristic of the state university is that it democratizes 
education — puts the highest education in the reach of all fit to take 
it. It places the democracy of the mind on the same basis as the 
democracy of the man. 

The attitude of the various types of universities toward the 
schools is the significant thing. The democracy begins with the 
free schools and educates its citizens from below upward through 
high schools and colleges, lifting all up in proportion to their abili- 
ties and sending as many of the fit as possible to the university to 
be made leaders of thought and action. The democratic system of 
education gives every man the freest opportunity to become in the 
fullest measure all for which nature fitted him. It produces, thus, 
not a series of type men, molded to fit particular places, but a world 
of freely developed beings, strong to do the work for which their 
Creator made them. This system produces not a few classes of good 
workers, like the monarchial plan, but a great variety of strong men 
and women, possessing a diversity of potentiality. Democracy gives 
a chance to the poor as well as to the rich boy and demands of each 
that he be the best and do the best he can. It aims, thus, not to 



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train the man to fit the place made for him, but to educate him to 
make a large place in the world for himself. 

Such are the aims of the American state university, the most 
perfect type of university ever established. Such are tlie aims of 
this University. 

One lesson this terrible war has branded as with a hot iron upon 
the attention of the whole modern world is the importance of this 
university of the people. If before the war any one doubted that 
education was the most effective instrument of a people's develop- 
ment, certainly no one doubts this now. Hereafter all economic, 
social, civic, national and international problems will be brought 
finally for solution to the university. 

' This war has shown us, moreover, how governments can shape 
the schools to train people to think and act as their rulers wish them 
to. If the people continue to be free, they must control their own 
schools and universities. 

This war has taught us Americans many things besides the 
necessity of military preparedness. The need of industrial prepared- 
ness is recognized by all. To secure this we must prepare social 
justice and maintain peace between labor and capital. Before we 
can establish social justice we must have enlightenment and good 
will. Thus the necessity of preparedness runs through our whole 
political, social and economical life. The fundamental element in 
national preparedness is the preparation of the intellects and souls 
of our people. 

First of all. the means and methods of the education of our peo- 
ple need to be considered anew. At a time when the physical ener- 
gies of a large part of the world are concentrated upon the prepara- 
tion of the supplies of war, and when the minds of men are pro- 
foundly interested in the development of wonderful new methods of 
destruction, we are inclined to think of wealth, natural resources, 
and technical skill to the exclusion of intellectual, moral, and 
spiritual forces. Money, materials, and efficiency are not the only- 
things — the minds and souls, of men need to be regenerated first. 

Wealth and technical knowledge are indeed essential to our con- 
tinued industrial prosperity and progress, but education should be 
nothing less than the preparation for the whole life. It should intro- 
duce the future citizens of the republic of freedom not merely to the 
physical resources of the world and the methods of making them 
into wealth and power, but also to the deeper interests and problems 
of politics, thought and human life. It should acquaint the people 
with the great ideals of mankind, as expressed in literature, with the 
achievements of the race, as recorded in history, and with the nature 
and laws of the world, as interpreted, philosophy and religion. 



OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY 9 

My fellow-countrymen, It is a stupendous task we have under- 
taken — this task of establishing a government of the people over a 
whole continent and in various dependencies throughout the world, 
but we dare not give it up. We must go forward with our work of 
teaching the world equality and fraternity; and the only method of 
doing this is by educating and spiritualizing the 'people. This is the 
task of our .schools and colleges. Let us consider one of its phases. 

My friends, human freedom — moral, political, social and indus- 
trial freedom — realized through the home, the school, the shop, the 
university, the city, and the state, the church and the various asso- 
ciations of men and of nations, with all their interplay of influence, 
is a tremendous concept. But nothing less will give the men of the 
future complete liberty. The time was when men were satisfied with 
the freedom in one or two of these relations, but our life has now 
become so many-sided and complicated that liberty cannot be secured 
through any one channel or in any two or three institutions. 

It has not been over an easy road that men have arrived at this 
stage of imperfect liberty. It was only through ages of war and 
struggle that we attained the measure of liberty we now possess. 
There are no short-cuts to freedom. Complete liberty will be won 
only through the application of knowledge and understanding, truth 
and love, imagination and .sympathy, courage and devotion, to every 
side of human life and every form of human relationship, interna- 
tional as well as intra-national. The constructive energy of human 
society works outward from the individual in ever-widening circles — 
the township, the county, the state, the nation, the world — and then 
back again through all these to the individual. Mankind is ready to 
say, "Give me complete liberty or death." 

The democracy has in the past limited its activity too much to 
organizations immediately surrounding the individual, to the neglect 
of the broad questions touching the outer circle of human relations. 
We concern ourselves intensely with the rights of the individual in 
the shop or the city, and let amateur statesmen direct our business 
with other nations. The time is at hand when we must cease this 
policy of drift and undertake a broad and comprehensive treatment 
of the problems of international life. Democracy, educated by the 
sad le.ssons of this war, informed and enlightened by this larger 
view of its duty, must drop his policy of "laissez faire" and abandon 
the path of negation in international affairs. That policy may have 
been wise when America was twenty days distant from all the world; 
it would be madness in these days of steam warships and submarines, 
of aeroplanes and Zeppelins. So long as our task was the breaking^ 
of the bonds that bound mankind to the past the individualistic na- 
tional policy was a useful and an opportune one; it is a useless and 



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untimely policy, now that our task is to maintain the peace of the 
nations. If democracy does not forsake this narrow path, this 
short-sighted policy, it will surely perish — as all reactionary systems 
have perished — in impotence and anarchy. 

Students of the University of Kentucky, it is your duty also to 
study and solve these problems, to meet and to overcome these dan- 
gers. You and the other young men and women in the colleges and 
universities of the country today will be leaders of the republic to- 
morrow. Your task i.s to educate this people to be fit citizens of the 
greater democracy. The children at present in the schools will 
bring to fruition in the next generation the possibilities of the com- 
ing peace. Yours it is, then, to decide whether the republic shall go 
on or whether this greatest experiment in democracy shall end in 
disaster. 

Young men and women, this government carries the hopes of 
the human race, and it is yours to preserve these hopes and bring 
them to a glorious fruition. Shut off the beacon of "Liberty En- 
lightening the World," at the portal of this republic and all the na- 
tions are adrift again upon unknown seas. But save the republic, 
establish forever the light of that beacon over the troubled waters 
of the world, and one by one the ships of the nations will come sail- 
ing in, drop anchor and be at rest in the harbor of universal demo- 
cracy. 

President Barker introduced Doctor James K. Patterson 
with the f oliowing : 

When the Jubilee Committee was arranging the programme to 
celebrate the 50th anniversary of this University, quite propeily it 
came to the conclusion that the friends of the University should 
have its history. There was but one man who could give that his- 
tory. I shall not take up your time in eulogizing the President Emeritus 
of this University. You know him better than I. He has lived the 
life of the University. He knows it as well as he knows his own 
life. Therefore, the committee selected for this address President 
Emeritus James Kennedy Patterson. 

President Patterson said : 

In 1865 there existed in Kentucky four or five denominational 
colleges, each of which was doing good academic work along the 
old classical lines. Before the outbreak of the Civil War keen rivalry 
•stimulated competition and kept standards high. They did not rank 
with the old colleges of the east but what work they did, they did 



OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY 11 

well. The degree of A. B. still suggested some Latin and Greek in 
its curriculum, and that of B. S. some physical and chemical science. 
The Chair of Philosophy was considered the chair of honor and the 
ability with which it was filled gave dignity and prestige to the in- 
stitution. 

In 1862 Congress made liberal provision for instruction in those 
branches of learning related to agriculture and the mechanic arts 
"without excluding other scientific and classical studies and includ- 
ing military tactics in such manner as the Legislatures of the states 
may respectively prescribe in order to promote the liberal and prac- 
tical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and 
professions of life." 

For this purpose Congress granted public lands in proportion to 
representation in Congress. The allotment to Kentucky was 330,000 
acres, an area amounting to over 515 square miles. The State did 
not consider itself prepared at that time to establish such a college 
as the organic laws contemplated and the dignity of the Common- 
wealth required, upon an independent basis, and readily acceded to 
the proposal of the recently consolidated Kentucky and Transylvania 
Universities to engraft her college upon the new institution as one 
of its associated colleges. In 1865 this union was effected and in 
October, 1866, the Agricultural and Mechanical College, known for 
many years as State College, and which has since grown into the 
University of Kentucky, opened its doors for matriculation of stud- 
ents. The income of the new University was about $25,000, of which 
$9,900 belonged to the Agricultural and Mechanical College and was 
applied to its .sole and exclusive use. Few of its matriculates were 
ready for college work. Five-sixths of its students were in the pre- 
paratory department, a department then indispensable, because of 
the backwardness of education in the State. Outside of Louisville, 
so far as I am aware, no high school at that time existed. For some 
years the alliance worked well. Education was in consequence of 
the war prostrate in the south and west. Students fiocked in from 
Kentucky and ihe adjacent states. In 1870 the matriculation reached 
its maximum 767, of which the Agricultural and Mechanical College 
had 300. But religious dissension over the management and policy 
of the institution by the governing board began to loom up. The 
quarrels were carried into the General Assembly. Failing to elimi- 
nate John B. Bowman, the Creator of the Consolidation, a man of 
more liberal views and of larger ideas on education than those held 
by the majority of his co-religionists, the Christian church withdrew 
its patronage, causing thereby a rapid decline in attendance and 
reputation. The crisis culminated in 1878 when the Legislature 
intervened and withdrew the Agricultural and Mechanical College 



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from its unfortunate connection. Wlien the separation took place 
the Agricultural and Mechanical College was nowhere. It had neither 
land nor buildings, nor equipment; nothing except $9,900, the income 
derived from the invested funds which had accrued from the sale of 
the land scrip given by Congress for its endowment. The General 
Assembly of iS7S appointed a commission to locate it. This com- 
mission advertised for bids. Bowling Green and Lexington were the 
only competitors. The former offered an alliance with Ogden Col- 
lege and $30,000 in bonds for the purchase of land. The latter offered 
its city park as a site for buildings, and the city and county added 
to this offer $-50,000 in bonds for the erection of buildings or the pur- 
chase of land. The latter, after much opposition from its old part- 
ner the Kentu-iliy University, was accepted by the Legislature. John 
B. Bowman had failed to realize his expectation of a great univer- 
sity which should give a lead to education in the south and southwest, 
but he had created conditions unconsciously which resulted in the 
establishment of a greater University founded exclusively on secular 
lines and which should ere the close of the century assert and vindi- 
date the principle of State aid for higher education, and of State 
control of State institutions. Let us .not hesitate in the celebration 
of this, our jubilee, to award the meed of praise which is his due 
to John B. Bowman, the stalwart champion of higher education in. 
Kentucky. 

After its location had been determined the General Assembly of 
1880 considered the question of future endowment and adequate main- 
tenance. Various plans were proposed. Amid strong opposition 
from the denominational colleges the General Assembly passed by 
small majorities an act giving it annually the proceeds of a tax of 
one-half of one cent on each hundred dollars of taxable property 
owned by white persons in the Commonwealth. The income was 
thus at once increased from $9,900 per annum to $27, .500. 

Period of Opposition. 

It was hoped that the strong opposition which the one-half cent 
tax had encountered throughout the State and in the Legislature of 
1880 would gradually subside and finally disappear after the ad- 
journment of the General Assembly. Not so, however. The denomi- 
national colleges formed the nucleus of an opposition which grew 
rather than diminished and the members of the late General Assem- 
bly who had voted against the tax stimulated the hostility to the col- 
lege. The pulpits of the Presbyterian, the Baptist, the Christian and 
the Methodist rang with the "iniquity and injustice of the tax," and 
made it an issue in the next election. It was quite apparent that 



OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY 13 

when the next General Assembly should convene the existence of the 
lax would be imperilled with the odds strongly against the college. 

I happened to be in Louisville on the 18th of November, 1881. 
Former business relations with the Courier-Joarnal suggested that 
Mr. Watterson be invited to make the address of dedication of the 
college building then in process of erection. While in the Courier- 
Journal office, at night, waiting for an interview, the managing editor 
brought me a copy of an article signed by representatives of the col- 
leges, viz.: Central University, Kentucky University, and Centre, 
Georgetown. Kentucky Wesleyan, and Bethel Colleges, which would 
appear in the issue of the following morning. This manifesto was 
addressed to the people of Kentucky, but was especially intended for 
the members of the General Assembly who would convene in Frank- 
fort on the 28th of November. The paper was adroitly and ably 
drawn, embodying much that was germane to education as then exist- 
ing in Kentucky. Its appearance was so timed that it was expected 
to reach the members-elect of the General Assembly at their homes 
before setting out for Frankfort. The brief interval intervening would 
scarcely, it was thought, leave time for a reply ajid thus public 
opinion would in great measure be formed before the Assembly 
convened. 

With this conviction I determined to remain in Louisville an- 
other day and answer it before my return. The manifesto of the col- 
leges appeared in the issue of the 19th and my reply on the morn- 
ing of the 20th of November and the same post which carried the 
attack carried in most cases the defense. The assailants happily 
were placed on the defensive and kept there. 

By individual letters addressed to the Senators before the 18th of 
November, I had anticipated most of the Aatal points in the manifesto 
and had done much to explain and conciliate. I argued that while 
the denominational colleges had done a great and an indispensable 
work in laying the foundation of the classical and liberal education 
which the Commonwealth required, that the time had come for a 
new departure in education for the endowment of which Congress 
had made provision; that Kentucky's allotment of land had been 
practically wasted, that it devolved upon the State having accepted 
the trust to make good the deficiency caused by mismanagement, and 
that the Agricultural and Mechanical College had neither the dis- 
position nor the intention to interfere with the work of the existing 
colleges, that the new institution to the maintenance of which the 
State was committed should make provision not only for the classical 
and liberal education which Congress contemplated but for those 
scientific subjects which lie at the foundation of modern agricultural 
and industrial development, and that provision for the endowment 



14 FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

of research followed as a necessary consequence, museums, labora- 
tories and mechanical appliances unknown to the collegiate work of 
the existing colleges were indispensable, and that whereas the former 
thought in hundreds of dollars the latter must think in thousands and 
tens of Thousands. Endowment by private benefaction might suffice 
for the colleges of the olden time, but endowment by the State was 
an absolute necessity for the college and university of the modern 
type. 

Wlaen the Legislature assembled the outlook was gloomy in the 
extreme. Blantcn and Dudley, and Beatty, Miller and Wagner were 
there representing the colleges. Dozens of letters for the members 
came in by every mail protesting against the iniquity and the con- 
tinuance of the tax. To add to our embarrassment we had been 
misled by our architects. The buildings were only half completed 
and the money Avas all expended. It became apparent that unless 
we could borrow money to complete the half erected buildings we 
must suspend operations. Moreover, if our embarrassments should 
become known the General Assembly would hesitate to provide money 
for an institution which, its opponents would argue, did not know how 
to spend judiciously what they had. The banks refused to lend ex- 
cept on personal security — inasmuch as the college having only a 
contingent interest in the property given by the city had nothing 
to mortgage. In this emergency I hypothecated with the Northern 
Bank, my own collaterals, borrowed the money and placed it in 
the hands of the executive committee to carry on the work on the 
buildings and took the notes of the University for repayment, well 
knowing that if the one-half cent tax were repealed, I should lose all. 
Indeed the Senator from Fayette said to me, "You have done a very 
foolish thing. The Legislature is likely to repeal the tax and in that 
event you will lose all." Dr. Ormond Beatty, President of Centre 
College, presented before a crowded audience of Senators and Rep- 
resentatives the argument for the repeal of the tax. He character- 
ized it as "unwise, unjust, excessive, oppressive." When his argu- 
ment was completed the belief was strong that the tax was doomed. 
It fell to me to make the argument for the college which I did a 
few days later. When the audience adjourned sentiment had appar- 
ently changed and the tide had evidently begun to run in favor of 
maintaining the tax. The assailants then discovered that the tax 
was unconstitutional and without further delay made a direct on- 
slaught upon it, first before the General Assembly and later before 
the courts. The ablest legal talent in Kentucky, Ex-chief Justice 
Lindsay, Alex P. Humphrey, Colonel Bennett H. Young and James 
Trabue, was employed. After the conclusion of Judge Lindsay's 
argument the cause of the college seemed hopeless. John G. Car- 



OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY . 15 

lisle was asked by the chairman of the executive committee to de- 
fend, the constitutionality of the tax. He examined Article XI. of the 
old Constitution and promptly declined, saying: "You have no case." 
In this emergency an opportune suggestion from J. P. Metcalfe, a 
former Ileporter of the Court of Appeals, viz.: That I should look 
into the debates which preceded the adoption of the Constitution, 
induced me to try what a layman might do. I ventured to prepare 
and deliver before a full House a reply and much to my surprise 
won on every point along the whole line. The discomfiture of client 
and counsel was complete. The tax was saved. 

But after the adjournment of the Legislature a suit was brought 
in the chancellor's court in Louisville to test the validity of the law. 
The chancellor's court allowed me to file as a brief the argument 
which I had made before the Legislature and on that brief the col- 
lege won. The contestants appealed. I filed my brief with the Ap- 
pellate Court also and some years later. Judge Holt writing the 
opinion, affirmed the constitutionality of the act. The Judge said 
that he based his opinion on the lines of the brief which I had sub- 
mitted. 

When our buildings were completed we had a debt of $35,000; 
but by the most rigid economy every dollar was paid within three 
years, and no one outside of the Board of Trustees knew anything of 
our embarrassment till after the debt was paid. 

I had counted upon the active opposition of the denominational 
colleges and of a large number of their co-religionists in the General 
A.ssembly, but I had not anticipated and was not prepared for the 
active and energetic and bitter opposition which the tax encountered 
from the Agriculturists, and from the Grange organizations which 
represented them. They did not want an institution which might 
grov»r into a University. They wanted an agricultural college, pure 
and simple, with blacksmith and carpenter shops attached. They 
wanted no "Mechanic Arts" which might develop into technical 
schools, no scientific studies other than the most meager outlines 
and these directly related to farming. (We employed one of the 
most highly educated veterinarians in America, who after every 
effort had been made to secure students, in the course of two or three 
years, resigned because he could get no pupils). For the mainte- 
nance of an agricultural college, the Agriculturists of the State 
thought the annual income from the congressional script fund suffi- 
cient. More would only seduce the management of the college to 
establish courses of study for liberal education and for this the 
denominational colleges already existing could supply all that the 
State required. This unreasoning, obstinate hostility was even more 
difficult to overcome than the opposition of the colleges. Clardy and 



16 FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

Green and Bird and Logan and Hanna were not men to be readily- 
convinced by argument nor won over by diplomatic tact. A propa- 
ganda of more than twenty years was required for an acquiescent 
support of State aid for scientific agriculture. The fruits of this 
missionary work you witness today. Where formerly they bitterly 
opposed the appropriation of hundreds they now readily vote thou- 
sands for mstruction in agriculture, and where with difficulty we 
could get a dozen or a score of students in agriculture, the College 
of Agriculture now vies with all the others in the number of its 
matriculates. 

Dozens and score.s of the leaders, however, lived to regret the 
part which they had taken and to congratulate the college on the 
success which it had under Providence achieved. 

The late Honorable Cassius M. Clay was kind enough to say in 
a public address which he made in 1909 that the great achievement 
of my life was the education of the people of Kentucky into the con- 
viction that it is the duty of the State to make adequate provision 
for higher education. This accomplished all else logically follows. 
But though the battle was won the fruits of victory were not easily 
retained. In every General Assembly from 1883 to 1893 opposition 
to the continuance of the tax existed and motions to repeal were 
introduced, committees of investigation were appointed, the college 
was harassed and annoyed and required to show its passports at 
every turn. 

In 1887 I assisted in securing an annual appropriation from Con- 
gress for the Experiment Station which I had established two years 
before. The General Assembly meanwhile had given the station con- 
trol over the sale of fertilizers with a royalty on every package sold. 
In 1890 I aided in obtaining from the Federal Government an appro- 
priation of six-seventh of $25,000 as additional income for the Agri- 
cultural and Mechanical College. 

Period of Conciliation. 

The first Legislature which met after the adoption of the new 
Constitution was charged with the duty of bringing the statutes of 
the State into harmony with the organic law. The Charter of 1880 
accordingly underwent revision. The question arose how to allay 
the public discontent in regard to the one-half cent tax. The opposi- 
tion came mainly from the outlying counties. They said "We pay 
a special tax for the support of a college in Central Kentucky from 
which we derive little of no benefit. Free tuition given to county 
appointees is an insignificant return for what we pay. Geographical 
conditions make it virtually a college for Lexington and the adja- 



OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY 17 

cent counties." The Legislature of 1893 felt the justice of tliis con- 
tention and determined to equalize advantages as far as possible. 
The joint committee on the college at the instance of Representative 
Ferguson and Senator DeBow recommended the following section of 
the revised charter which was adopted, viz.: "That each legislative 
representative district in consideration of the incomes accruing to 
said institution under the present laws for the benefit of the Agri- 
cultural and Mechanical College be entitled to select and to send to 
the college each year one or more properly prepared students as 
hereinafter provided for, free from all charges for tuition, matricula- 
tion, fuel, room rent and dormitory fees, except board. All bene- 
ficiaries of the State who continue students for one consecutive col- 
legiate year, or ten months, shall also be entitled to their travelling 
expenses in going to and returning from said college." The selection 
of beneficiaries was to be made by the county superintendents on 
competitive examination on subjects prepared by the faculty. This 
law worked admirably. Discontent vanished. The immunities conceded 
to county appointees not as a gratuity but as a right, especially 
travelling expenses, placed every county in Kentucky on a footing of 
absolute equaiiry, placed the college virtually in every county. The 
outlying counties not only ceased opposition but became loyal sup- 
porters of the college. Many of. the most distinguished of the alumni 
came from the counties formerly hostile but thenceforward loyal to 
the core. If the former period was the era of opposition, the period 
which followed may be called the era of conciliation. For the at- 
tainment of this end I felt no less satisfaction than for the success 
achieved in procuring endowment through the one-half cent tax and 
in maintaining its constitutionality. 

Period of Development. 

In 1878 the last year of the alliance of the Agricultural and 
Mechanical College with the old Kentucky University, the total en- 
rollment was 7S; in 1908, 1,064. In 1880 the senior class numbered 4; 
in 1910, the last year of my administration, 85. In 1880 the college 
owned not an acre of ground, in 1910 it owned 250 acres, for the 
last 40 acres of which it paid $27,000. In 1880 the income was 
$9,900. In 1910 I turned over to my successor an annual income of 
$170,000, and grounds, buildings and equipment that had grown 
from absolutely nothing to an estimated value of $930,000. 

In 1880 only two courses of study leading to a degree existed, 
with a normal school and an academy which prepared students to 
enter college. In 1910 there existed the College of Science and Arts, 
the College of Agriculture, the Colleges of Civil Engineering, Me- 



18 FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

chanical Engineering, Mining Engineering, and the College of Law. 
The Normal Department by a political bargain was, in 1908, at the 
instance of Richmond and Bowling Green eliminated, though subse- 
quently restored under another name. The academy ceased to exist 
in 1911. 

"By their fruits ye shall know them. Men do not gather grapes 
from thorns nor figs from thistles " I would not bring into invidious 
comparison the alumni of the University of Kentucky with those of 
any other state university, but I may without boasting be permitted 
to say that of the 883 alumni graduated between 1869 — the first year 
of my Presidency — and 1910, the last year, not more than one-half of 
one per cent, have been failures. What other university in America 
old or new has a better record? Her alumni have been in demand 
east, west, north and south and readily find renumerative employ- 
ment. In law, in medicine, in engineering, in experiment stations, in 
administrative offices, state and federal, in classics, in science, pure 
and applied, they have won their spurs and hold the honors which 
they have won. "In their veins the sap swells high today and will 
swell higher still tomorrow." 

In 1910, wearied with an almost continuous service of forty-one 
years, I offered my resignation. The Board of Trustees urged me to 
withhold it and Governor Willson refused for months to accept it. 
I thought, however, that I had earned my retirement and pressed its 
acceptance. At the time of my retirement I was the oldest in con- 
tinuous service of any college president in America. The Board of 
Trustees granted me, in recognition of service rendered, and in antici- 
pation of services yet to be rendered, honorable and generous con- 
ditions of retirement coupled with expressions of regard for which 
I was deeply grateful. 

In 1895 a domestic calamity left me childless. My affection was 
then centered upon the University which has since been to me as 
a son. My greatest pleasure has been in its development and in its 
prosperity. The sovereign dies but the kingdom goes on. We pass 
away but the University survives. In it there is continuity and de- 
velopment. There may be periods of adversity in this as in all 
human institutions, alternating with periods of prosperity. But of 
this be assured, the University has come to stay. Esto perpetual 

Ideals of patriotism differ. The Briton and the American love 
their country with no less devotion than do the Teuton and the Slav. 
But the Anglo-Saxon conception of the State differs by the whole 
diameter of political existence from that of the Central European 
Powers. With the former liberty is the prime and the original con- 
cept. When -the Anglo-Saxon citizen creates the State he invests it 
with authority in order to safeguard and perpetuate freedom, and 



OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY 19 

the problem with him is how best to co-ordinate liberty with author- 
ity. With the Teuton and the Slav the State owes its existence not 
to the citizen but to authority based upon divine right inherent in the 
sovereign. Whatever freedom exists is conceded by authority and 
may be revoked by the sovereign who grants it. The state is every- 
thing, the individual exists for and is submerged in the state. 

Now university life may be expected to reflect and does reflect 
the conditions, ethnic and political, civil and religious, intellectual 
and moral, under which they come into being and in which they are 
nurtured. An atmosphere of freedom prevades the one, and of au- 
thority the other. Tlie one thinks unfettered, the other in bonds. 

University organization in America and in Great Britain is free, 
controlled only by collective individualism, that is by public opin- 
ion. If there be a tendency to degenerate into license, conservatism 
interposes a check and insists upon a wholesome moderation which 
shall submit rival conclusions and rival systems of thought to the 
adjudication of reason and adopt the resultant as the arbiter of 
speculative activity and its application to practical life. If in Cen- 
tral and Eastern Europe the university ventures to exceed the limits 
conceded by authority, authority interposes a timely warning, and if 
this be not heeded closes its doors. 

Following tills line of thought it may be observed that the con- 
ception of university organization and ends which obtains in the 
Mother Country and her dependencies differ widely from those which, 
obtain in the forty-eight states of the American Union. Each state 
has its own co?iception of what a university should be and of the 
work which it should do. The old privately endowed universities. 
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and we may add Johns Hop- 
kins, differ from the state universities, Cornell, Wisconsin, Ohio 
State, Illinois, California, and arrange their courses of study ac- 
cordingly. Johns Hopkins could not be transplanted to Arkansas, thd 
University of Kansas to Connecticut. An individualism, born of 
local conditions, attaches itself to each. 

The University of Kentucky has like its congenors distinctive 
characteristics of its own. It is distinctly American and it is dis- 
tinctly Kentuckian. Like its fellows it reflects the conditions under 
which it came into being and like them it will modify these condi- 
tions for good or evil in the days to come. A heavy responsibility, 
therefore, rests upon its governing board and upon its administra- 
tion. Will integrity of purpose, sincerity in profession, capability in 
action, thoroughness in instruction, a delicate sense of honor be the 
end and aim of its activity? Will the formation of character take 
precedence of the production of wealth and the moulding and fash- 
ioning of manly men and womanly women be held as the best product 



20 FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

of university life? No better material exists in America. A homo- 
geneous population of reputable lineage representing the best blood 
of the Old World and the new, a generous soil, mountains teeming 
with mineral wealth, self reliance, a resolute and vigorous independ- 
ence which exacts from all and gives to all its dues. Kind and gen- 
erous to a fault, a narrow selfishness they despise, duplicity and 
treachery they abhor, and the violation of a trust they regard with 
ineffable scorn, and loving liberty for its own sake, they love noth- 
ing without liberty. 

If the function of university life be to awaken and to direct 
mental activity, to create a desire for learning and to impart it, to 
arouse as Huxley says a "fanaticism for truth," to cultivate and 
quicken and expand the human soul, to stimulate a passionate desire 
for the realization of the true, the beautiful and the good; if the 
highest end of education be to cultivate the mind for its own sake, 
believing that "on earth there is nothing great but Man, in man there 
is nothing great but mind," to perfect through thinking the instru- 
ment of thought, then President Hopkins and his appreciative pupil 
working together in a log cabin represent the essence and contain 
the germ of university life. Brick and mortar and spacious grounds 
and well equipped laboratories do not make a university, but learned, 
eager, sympathetic teachers and earnest, capable, studious pupils. 
Can we in these days realize now and here the fundamental con- 
ception which made Mark Hopkins and his pupils famous and gave 
to Williams College a renown which has made it famous? Can we 
and will we lay the foundation here of a distinct type of culture, phy- 
sical and mental and moral, pronounced in its individualism and cos- 
mopolitan in its scope? Peculiar conditions of race, of tradition, of 
soil, of climate, of mountain and valley, of river and hill and plain, 
supply the basis, provide the germ out of which such a type may 
and can be evolved. The University of Kentucky, if worthy of the 
name, will for all time mould the highest thought and shape the 
destiny of the Commonwealth. Progressive but not radical, con- 
servative but not reactionary, may it be the guiding star of the 
State, the sheet anchor of hope, the fountain, the fons et origo of 
integrity, of faith, of trust, of honor, and of purity, with no blot on 
its escutcheon and with no stain of dishonor upon its shield. 

Time has been when Kentucky's sons made her name famous in 
science, in art, in statesmanship, in invention, in scholarship, in 
literature and in arms. Let that era revive and continue. Let it be 
said in the ages to come as the Psalmist said of the Israelite of the 
Golden Age: "This man and that man were born there." And when 
the pilgrim of the future shall return to visit his Mecca, let him feel 
that its innermost shrine is the University of Kentucky. 



OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY 21 

Introducing Charles R. Brock, President Barker said : 

Ladies and Gentlemen, as a sort of a capstone for this day and 
further to honor President Patterson, the Alumni of this University 
have purcliased for this institution, his portrait, which will now be 
presented to the University. In selecting an alumnus to perform this 
duty, it was but natural that the committee should select one of the 
Alumni who knew President Patterson well and loved him. The 
committee selected Charles R. Brock, one of the most distinguished 
lawyers of the State of Colorado, who will present the portrait of 
Doctor Patterson that will afterwards be hung in any place the 
Alumni and Doctor Pa.tterson may elect. 

Mr. Brock said : 

Mr. President, Gentlemen of the Board of Trustees, Faculty, Stud- 
ents and Ladies and Gentlemen: 

Appearing on behalf of my brothers and sisters, the sons and 
daughters of this University, as well as on my own account, I have 
no other purpose or desire than to be a voice, -speaking a simple 
word of appreciation and affection. To be their representative on 
this occasion is pleasing. To be that voice is difficult. It is never 
easy to express in language our deepest feelings. The best chosen 
words sound vain and empty in comparison with the feelings they 
are intended to express. When I do my best I can only hope to give 
you a faint conception of our affection for and appreciation of the 
founder and creator of our Alma Mater. 

I now speak out of an experience of more than a quarter of a 
century since I last stood on this platform. From this advanced view- 
point it is possible to comprehend with some degree of clearness the 
tangible influences that operated upon our lives in their receptive 
stages, and which ever since have inclined us to do the right and 
encourage us to avoid the wrong. Of these influences unquestionably 
the greatest was exerted by God-fearing parents in the home. Second 
only to this I have no hesitancy in declaring was that exerted by the 
man who, during a period of more than forty years, presided over 
and formulated the destinies of this institution. When we thus place 
him in that close relationship to those who gave us life, we trust it 
is made clear to you and to him that he is deeply enshrined in our 
hearts. During all of these years we have kept in mind his daily 
prayer for the taught as well as for the teacher, and in somewhat 
the same way that the memory of a devoted mother's face has pre-- 
served us from falling when the temptation was great the influence' 
of this man has been a constant force in the formation of the char- 
acters of all those who were privileged to .sit at his feet. 



22 FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

Our devotion to him, moreover, is an expression of our loyalty 
to the institution which he created. We cannot be devoted to him 
without at the same time being loyal to the university — the product 
of liis indomitable will; and surely no one can be loyal to the uni- 
versity without entertaining a deep appreciation of and gratitude to 
the man who first conceived and, by the devotion of a lifetime, 
brought the university into being. 

Wlien, therefore, Mr. President and gentlemen of the Board of 
Trustees, we a&sure you of our deep and undying affection for Presi- 
dent Patterson, we also give you earnest testimonial of our loyalty 
ana devotion to the university. It is our wish that the university 
may always be a. credit to its creator, and for this to be true it must 
constantly grow and develop until among the institutions of learning 
it will be the peer of the best in the land. In the consummation of 
this ideal we pledge to you and to the university our best efforts 
and most faithful co-operation. 

As respects those who have been students here within the past 
fifty years, a portrait or statue of our venerable and beloved presi- 
dent is wholly unnecessary. This great and growing institution, con- 
ceived and chiseled into its present form by his own master mind, 
they recognize as a perpetual monument to its founder. In their 
minds the creator and the created — President Patterson and the Uni- 
versity — are irrevocably joined. They cannot think of the one with- 
out at the same time contemplating the other. That this relation 
between the University and its founder may also be known by those 
who follow, it is deemed fitting that we, whose lives have been 
touched by this incomparable educator should place within these 
walls, or upon your unparalleled campus, some tribute to his memory. 

With this purpose in mind the Alumni now present you with his 
portrait. 

While we thus attempt to honor liim whose image is reproduced 
on canvas, we would not fail publicly to avow our gratitude to our 
gracious and beloved Commonwealth of Kentucky and all those who 
have contributed to the upbuilding of this splendid institution. 

In conclusion, I beg that it be not regarded a.s inappropriate for 
me to betray a bit of confidence entrusted to me by a number of 
those for whom I .speak. In front of the Capitol Building at Wash- 
ington City there stands a bronze memorial to Chief Justice Marshall, 
the great and peerless expounder of the Constitution of the United 
States. At Cambridge, upon the campus of the great University 
which bears his name, is to be found a similar memorial to John 
Harvard. The mention of these is intended only to indicate the pur- 
pose in our minds in like manner to honor the founder of the State 
University of Kentucky. What we contemplate is a statue of him 



OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY 23 

as we have seen, liim sitting in his office, lecture room or on the 
chapel platform. Thus to honor him will be the greatest possible 
honor to the University, the Commonwealth and ourselves. The hope 
on our part that the knowledge of this purpose, conceived as it has 
been in appreciation and affection, may detract somewhat from the 
loneliness of his old age and relative isolation is our justification for 
revealing this secret. 

That his life may be preserved for many years, and that his last 
days may be happy, as he reflects upon his achievements in this 
and contemplates the hopes and possibilities of the life to come, is 
our profoundest wish. 

President Barker then introduced Professor F. Paul Ander- 
son, who presented the various conferees of honorary degrees 
as follows : 

CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREES. 

Professor Anderson: Mr. President, on behalf of the Faculty of 
the University of Kentucky, I present to you for the honorary de- 
gree of Doctor of Laws, James Levan Clark, President of Kentucky 
Wesleyan College, a man who has consecrated himself to the cause 
of education, a worthy head of a sister institution of learning. 

President Barker: By the authority of the Commonwealth of 
Kentucky, the Board of Trustees, and the Faculty of the University 
of Kentucky, I confer upon you, Doctor Clark, the honorary degree 
of Doctor of Laws. 

Professor Anderson: On behalf of the Faculty of the University 
of Kentucky, Mr. President, I present to you for the honorary degree 
of Doctor of Laws, Charles Robert Brock, an alumnus of the Uni- 
versity of Kentucky, who has added lustre to her fair name, a leader 
in the profession of law in the far West, one who has profited by the 
training given him in the early days by teachers of rare scholarship. 

President Barker: It is always a pleasure to me to participate in 
honoring an Alumnus of this University. It gives me, therefore, the 
greatest pleasure, Mr. Brock, as President of this University, and 
by the authority conferred upon me as such, to confer upon you the 
honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. 

Professor Anderson: On behalf of the Faculty of the University, 
of Kentucky, I present to you for the honorary degree of 
Doctor of Laws, Richard Henry Crossfield, President of Transylvania 
College, the oldest university west of the Alleghenies. President 
Crossfield has accomplished much in maintaining the standards of 
university life established years ago by that group of scholarly mert 



24 FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

who made Transj'lvania one of the dominant universities of Amer- 
ica. 

President Barker: President Crossfield, coming as you do, the 
head of a sister institution of learning in this city, it is a peculiar 
pleasure here to exercise the authority vested in me to confer upon 
you the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. 

Professor Anderson: On behalf, Mr. President, of the University 
I present to you for the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, Ferdi- 
nand Brossart, Bishop in the Catholic Church, author, linguist; one 
who has inspired the hearts of many men to seek and find the joys 
of simple and correct living. 

Pr&sident Barker: Father Brossart, on account of your eminent 
piety, your profound scholarship, your exalted Christian life, and your 
eloquence, the University of Kentucky honors itself indeed when it 
seeks to honor you. Now, therefore, by the authority in me vested 
by the Board of Trustees of this institution I confer upon you the 
degree of Doctor of Laws. 

Professor Anderson: Mr. President, on behalf of the Faculty of the 
University of Kentucky, I present to you for the honorary degree of 
Doctor of Laws, William Arthur Ganfield, President of Centre Col- 
lege — Old Centre — the Alma Mater of many renowned Kentuckians, 
theologian, lecturer; one who brings to his college charge a wealth of 
experience and success in many diverse fields. 

President Barker: President Ganfield, we honor you and we desire 
to honor your institution. By the authority conferred on me by the 
Board of Trustees and the Faculty of this University, I confer upon 
you the degree of Doctor of Laws. 

Professor Anderson: On behalf of the University Faculty, Mr. 
President, I desire to present to you for the degree of Doctor of Liter- 
ature, John Letcher Patterson, an alumnus of the University of Ken- 
tucky; educator, contributor to classical periodicals, author, editor and 
translator. 

President Barker: Doctor Patterson, it gives me the greatest 
pleasure to confer this honor vipon you, who are an alumnus of this 
institution and Dean of the University of Louisville. By authority 
conferred on me by the Board of Trustees and the Faculty of this 
University, I hereby confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor 
of Literature. 

Prof. Anderson: On behalf of the Faculty, Mr. President, I desire 
to present to you for the degree of Doctor of Laws, Maldon Browning 
Adams, President of Georgetown College, Georgetown, Ky., theologian 
and scholar — one who gives ample talents to the education of Amer- 
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to confer upon you this honorary degree; no man deserves it more 
and none could enjoy more than I do the opportunity to exercise tlie 
authority conferred upon me by which I now confer upon you the 
honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. 

Profe.ssor Anderson: Mr. President, on behalf of tlie Faculty I 
present to you for the degree of Doctor of Laws, Thomas Hunt Mor- 
gan, alumnus of the University of Kentucky, biologist, author of im- 
portant biological treatises; prominent in scientific societies; one 
known far and wide for achievements in research. 

President Barker: Professor Morgan it gives me great pleasure 
to honor you as an alumnus of this institution. When you were a 
student here you were an excellent student and you have been a 
profound student since. You have accomplished much in the world 
that is of substantial worth to the race and the world is better by 
reason of your achievements and research. By the authority there- 
fore vested in me, I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor 
of Laws. 

Professor Anderson: On behalf of the Faculty, Mr. President, I 
present to you for the degree of Doctor of Laws, William Goodell 
Frost, President of Berea College, distinguished as one who has 
adapted educational methods to conditions in the mountains of our 
State, contributor to magazines, author, one who has brought a 
wealth of scholarship to the service of education. 

President Barker: Doctor Frost, few men have ever done greater 
work for Kentucky than you have, a more peculiar work, a work 
that it seems no one else but you could have done, and certainly I 
feel that no one could have done it better than you have done it. 
The President of Berea College needs no eulogy from me. By the 
authority in me vested it gives me great pleasure to confer upon you 
the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. 

Professor Anderson: Mr. President, on behalf of the Faculty of 
this institution, I desire to present to you for the degree of Doctor 
of Laws, Charles William Dabney, President of the University of 
Cincinnati, chemist, agriculturist, one who, as Assistant Secretary of 
Agriculture of the United States, determined a durable policy for 
conducting the Agricultural Experiment Stations of our Land Grant 
Colleges, orator, educator, executive of marked achievements. 

President Barker: President Dabney, by the authority given to 
me by the governing board of this institution I now confer upon 
you the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. In addition to that, I 
desire to thank you for the illuminating address that you have given 
to us this morning. 

Professor Anderson: On behalf of the Faculty, Mr. President, I 
desire to present to you for the degree of Doctor of Laws, George 



26 FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

AValter Stevens, railroad president, authority on railroad practice in 
America, man ol" affairs; we desire to put the University of Ken- 
tucky seal upon him. 

President Barker: Mr. Stevens, a man who is able to enact as 
successfully as you have done, the role of president of one of the 
greatest railroad systems in this country, must combine with great 
force, indomitable energy, constructive and executive ability. This 
we know you have and this University desires to foster the spirit 
of achievements like yours by honoring these who have attained so 
eminent success through them. Therefore, it gives me great pleasure 
to confer upon you the degree of Doctor of Laws. 

Professor Anderson: Mr. President, on behalf of the Faculty I 
desire to present to you for the honorary degree of Doctor of Litera- 
ture, Henry Watterson, journalist, statesman, man of letters, orator, 
world famed writer, molder of public thought in America. 

President Barker: Colonel Henry W. Watterson, as a great Ken- 
tuckian you are entitled to every honor that the chief institution of 
learning of your State can bestow upon you. You Iiave been its 
friend and its benefactor; you have done much not only for this in- 
stitution, but you have done more for the Commonwealth of Ken- 
tucky. Therefore, it is peculiarly fitting that in the name of the 
University of Kentucky, I. as its President, should confer upon you 
the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature. 

At this point President Barker introduced Kicliard C. Stoll, 
who presented the name of President Emeritiis of the Univer- 
sity, James Kennedy Patterson, for Honorary degree. Mr. Stoll 

said : 

First citizen of the Commonwealth, founder of this University, 
great historian, great scholar, great teacher, great man, he has de- 
voted his life to this University and to the education of the citizens 
of Kentucky. He has done more for the upbuilding and elevation 
of our citizenship than any man. Honored himself by other universi- 
ties, he has honored this University. His name and that of the 
University of Kentucky are synonymous. He has been our father; 
we are his children. He is our Alma Mater for he has been the 
University, because after all, the University is only its teachers, and 
he has been our great teacher. By his bigness and greatness he 
has earned, and he has the love and respect of all. His life has been 
well lived. This jubilee is his jubilee, and everyone is here today 
to do him honor and to pay him homage. Mr. President, for these 
reasons and for every reason, I desire to present to you James Ken- 
nedy Patterson for the degree of Doctor of Laws. 

President Barker: President Patterson, I accept in very truth the 
language of the speaker who knows you well and who has always 



OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY • 27 

loved you. Mr. Stoll has expressed not only his ov/n views, but the 
views of all the alumni of this University. Therefore, it is not 
necessary for me to do more than to adopt his language, which I do 
by conferring upon you, by the authority which I possess, the honor- 
ary degree of Doctor of Laws. 

Dr. W. A. Ganfield pronounced the benediction as follows : 
Our Father, we thank thee for every privilege of life; we thank 
thee for the memories of yesterday; we thank thee for the ambitions 
of tomorrow; we thank thee for the blessings of today. Now may the 
grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, our Father, and the 
fellowship of the Spirit be with us every one. Amen. 

STOLL FIELD DEDICATION. 

After lunch had been served to the guests upon the campus, 
the assemblage went immediatelj^ to the athletic field, situated in 
the northeastern portion of the University grounds. President 
Barker presided. He said : 

This field for many years has been called Stoll Field. It was 
named for a former student and honored alumnus, Richard C. Stoll. 
He is responsible largely for our enviable position in athletics. He 
was a prominent player on the football field while a student in the 
university and he ha.s distinguished himself since as a lawyer at the 
bar of this city. He is a trustee of this institution and has given his 
time freely and without compensation since he was graduated from 
it. We deem it fitting that this field should be formally dedicated to 
Richard Stoll. To this end, I am pleased to introduce Major John T. 
Geary, an alumnus and soldier of the United States Army, who has 
come to us from California to participate in this memorial cere- 
mony. 

Major Geary said : 

Governor Stanley, Mr. President and old Friends: It makes my 
heart burn with pleasure to rest foot again upon this athletic field 
after an absence of eighteen years in the army. When I look 
around and see so many of my old associates returning to the fold 
for the Golden Jubilee exercises, their voices vibrant with the en- 
thusiasm and eagerness of high resolve, there comes a host of mem- 
ories which demonstrates again and again that there is no reunion 
so charged with the sweetness of life and the priceless value of true 
fellowship as the revisiting of our Alma Mater after a prolonged 
absence out in the world of contest and endeavor, and the meeting 



28 FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

here of the students of our college days and the taking in some of the 
inspiration which actuates the president and faculty who are shap- 
ing the policy and guiding the destiny of Kentucky's great university. 

It is an occasion when thoughts leap out to wed with thought ere 
thought can wed itself to speech. It is but natural that we should 
grow reminiscent and pass in review .some of the athletic heroes who 
fought the good fight here upon this same field before our gallant 
defenders of todaj' show us how much better football they play than 
we played here in the early days when football was on trial and 
athletics in its infancy. We recall the time when it was impossible 
to get the necessary equipment and still more difficult to impress 
on some of the powers the fact that college athletics had arrived to 
stay and was worthy of encouragement and support. In this up- 
hill struggle we remember the eager, zealous, pioneer work done by 
Professor Anderson and Professor Miller, and Doctor Pryor, who, 
fortunately for the University, are still deans of their respective de- 
partments. They stood for clean, manly, legitimate, rational sport, 
and the much beloved and lamented Joseph H. Kastle, that dynamo 
of energy, enthusiasm and devotion to everything connected with the 
upbuilding of the University; he, too. was an influence and a power 
for good in every department of athletics. These men, while giving 
of both time and pur.se for the upbuilding of athletics, sought to confine 
athletics to its proper sphere, and impress upon all the fact that the 
real object of a college career was something higher than the evanes- 
cent applause of a football audience. We recall, too, some of our 
early stars — Sinith Alford, John Bryan, George Carey, Irving Lyle, 
Will Hobdy, Garred, Carnahan, Woods and many others their equals, 
all of whom were conspicuous successes on the gridiron and not one 
of whom ha.s proved a failure since he left this field. What then is 
the proper sphere of college athletics? A distinguished English edu- 
cator in answer to the question, "What is your ideal in education?" 
replied, "To play cricket and to speak the truth." The Duke of Well- 
ington announced that it was on the athletic fields of Eton that 
Waterloo was won. These cryptic utterances drive home the idea 
that a trained mind must be housed in a sound body. 

To be a succes.s in any department of human endeavor we must 
estimate the situation and grasp things by the handle. We must 
sense the point of attack and look out for the signals. The man 
with firm muscles and a sound courageous heart is a man of action 
with a sense of value. He meets unusual .situations and changes his 
dispositions to meet them. His mind orders and his body obeys. The 
athlete breathes the spirit of discipline and learns the value of co- 
operation. He ,is but an individual. It is team work that counts. 



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KENTUCKY 

DURTEENTH 



RICHARD C. STOLL AND TABLET DEDICATING 
STOLL FIELD. 



OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY 29 

He is an all round, well-developed man. He loves tlie cheer of vic- 
tory but scorns to obtain it by any but fair means. 

College athletics is of value when it hardens the muscles, puts 
courage in the heart, builds up esprit de crops, moulds character and 
insistently demands fair play. It is from the friction of contact with 
manly characters that the sparks of truth are struck out. From this 
viewpoint on this field our opponents are never enemies to be crushed 
taut comrades whose excellence we .strive to surpass. 

Let us then in dedicating this athletic field do so with the idea 
that contests fought here are to redound to the credit and honor of 
the University. Let it be said of us that nowhere in this broad land 
of ours can there be found a manlier spirit, richer fellowship, or 
more chivalrous contests than here on the athletic field of Ken- 
tucky University. If this be true, we may lose some battles, but we 
will have no Waterloos. 

Today we formally dedicate this field. We link to it the surname 
of one of the University's most powerful and influential benefactors. 
By the spontaneous action of the student body we dedidate it In 
these words: 

This tablet formally dedicates this field: 

STOLL FIELD 

in honor of 

RICHARD C. STOLL 

Alumnus, Trustee and Benefactor of the University 
of Kentucky, October 14th, 1916. 

I like to think of him not as Richard C. Stoll, tlie lawyer, the 
man of affairs, but as "Dick" Stoll, the boy whom I knew so well 
in my college days. I recall him as a member of the class of '95; 
he played end and fullback on the football team of 1893-4, was cap- 
tain of the track team in 1894, and was on the relay team that won 
the first intercollegiate field day in 1894. He was also manager of 
the baseball team in 1894. These things he did as Dick Stoll. Since 
graduation, as Richard C. Stoll, he has been a member of the Board 
of Trustees from 1898 to 1904 and from 1907 to the present moment. 
He has been a member of the Executive Committee and Chairman 
of the Board of Control of the Experiment Station for years. He 
has drawn heavily upon his time and made grave sacrifice to pay 
the d^bt every man owes to his Alma Mater, and is richly deserving 
of the honor we bestow upon him today. 



30 FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

Governor A. 0. Stanley followed Major Geary and spoke 
as follows in accepting the memorial tablet : 

Ladies and Gentlemen and Fellow Students: We are here today 
with happy and grateful hearts to accept and to dedicate this field 
to an old champion and a loyal friend. Stoll Field is not so broad 
as the syn:pathies of liirn for whom it is named — our own "Dick" 
Stoll — and so long as the turf will remain green upon it will his gen- 
erous devotion to a great university spring perennially within the 
hearts of the athletes and the "Old State" rooters. We know "Dick" 
Stoll and can say in spite of his faults, politically and otherwise, my 
dear old Dick, "with all your faults, we love you still." You can 
have but one objection to Dick Stoll, he is too young. I have known 
him for thirty years, and he is younger today than when I first made 
his acquaintance. Eternal youth, sympathy with the boys, a love 
of all that they love, an object to which they might all aspire, are 
all parts of this splendid youth. My friends, my fellow students, at 
no time in your life or mine could this field and this contest have 
so great a significance as now. Talk as you will, reason as you may, 
it remains a profound truth that at last the temples of justice, 
schools of learning, sanctuaries dedicated to the most high God, 
every monument erected to art or industry, in the hour of extreme 
peril must rise at last upon the broad shoulders of a man that has 
no fear at his country's call to do and to die for the safety of our 
institutions. The Saxon race for a thousand years has listened to 
the clank of chains, but thank God has never worn them. All of its 
safety, all of its pride, all of its dominance in the parliaments of the 
world, is due to the vigor and valor and the red blood of its youth; 
and today on belialf of this great institution and for that splendid 
jurist, that patriotic citizen, that learned scholar, that best of good 
fellows, the Honorable Richard C. Stoll, it is my pride and pleasure 
to accept this splendid monument of his generous love of his Alma 
Mater. 

Closing the exercises President Barker said : 

Gentlemien, you know what we do every year in Chapel at 
■sweater distribution time. When "Dick" Stoll played football they 
didn't give any sweaters and they didn't give any canes. Now I am 
going to introduce here a delayed forward pass — I am going to give 
"Dick" what he is entitled to, although he did not get it at the time 
he earned it. In the name of the University of Kentucky, and the 
students, I present to Richard C. Stoll this sweater and this cane 
which he has so deservedly won. 



OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY 31 

STREET PAGEANT. 

More than 700 undergraduates of the University, representing 
each of the four classes, all in elaborate costumes, took part in the 
parade Saturday morning, October 14, the most remarkable parade ever 
stc".ged in Lexington. 

The $100 cash prize was awarded the junior class for beauty, 
attendance and originality, by the special committee, composed of 
Charles Straus, chairman; J. D. Turner and Frank Battaile. The jun- 
iors followed the pageant idea throughout, illustrating the changes of 
fifty years. 

There were j'oung women and men dressed in the style of the 
"eighties" in contrast with a "1916" automobile carrying young peo- 
ple dressed in the height of fashion. A carriage of antebellum days, 
decorated in the University colors. Blue and Wliite, with a regular 
"darky" driving, caused many humorous comments by the onlook- 
ers. A host of college belles carrying baskets of flowers, made an 
attractive path for the "Immortals of '98," who were represented by 
a squad of lusty young men from the third-year class, with faces be- 
smeared with grease paint indicative of the battles tliey had fought. 

Half a dozen "trustees" wearing their frock coats bore "the 
President's Chair," in which one of their number rode in becoming 
dignity. 

Miss Juliet Lee Risque, from Midway, and William Wallace, of 
Lexington, led the freshman class. The entire procession was 
headed by Weber's band. 

Miss Risque and Mr. Wallace were seated on a pony and were 
dressed to represent a boy and girl in their early "teens" on their 
way to school with the inevitable stick of candy in their mouths. 
Two hundred other freshmen followed, all dressed in keeping with 
the age of twelve to fifteen. 

The sophcmores were headed by a number of young women and 
men dressed in true cowboy style. Girls and boys in varied cos- 
tumes, most 01 them dressed like clowns, turned out in large num- 
bers to honor the class of '19. 

A "policeman" was chased up and down the line by several irate 
students illustrative of an officer's welcome on the campus. 

Seniors were encased in huge paper rolls representing diplomas 
which they all had hopes of receiving in June. Their respective de- 
grees and caricatures were painted fore and aft. 



32 FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

A GOLDEN JUBILEE. 

(Editorial from Courier-Journal, Oct. 17th, 1916 by Henry Watterson.) 



"Book-larnin' " was not a characteristic of the world-famous men 
who, with Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton at their head, laid the 
foundations of Kentucky. The rifle was their single-rule-of-three. 
They blazed their way through trackless wilds, flint and steel, where 
light of heaven failed, their main and sure reliance. Not Jason sow- 
ing dragon's teeth in Colchis; nor Theseus in battle with the Mino- 
taur; nor Siegfried of the Rhine; never hero, mythic or actual — 
Knight of the Table Round of England, :\Iousquetaire, of the King's 
Guard of France — dared perils more appalling, did stunts of romance 
more appealing; the forest and the canebrake their alma mater, wood- 
craft their only title to learning. 

They were men. They were Anglo-Saxon men. They were Vir- 
ginians. They were Kentuckians — not Greeks — for they went back 
after their Ariadnes and their Medeas in linsey-woolsey, as, lo, the 
prolific yield of the immortals who led the van; the Walkers, the 
Callaways, the Hendersons, the Ballards, the Harts, the Floyds and 
the Stoners. 

It was perhaps a sense of their deficiency which moved these 
paladins in homespun and their immediate successors to give such 
hearty help to the effort of a few bookmen to supply the need. But 
in those days education and clericalism were very closely allied. A 
wave of religious fervor had swept the land with the dawn of the 
New Century. Inevitably the schools became sectarian. The soil, 
so fruitful of brave men, seemed unfruitful for pure scholarship. Who 
could look for academic calm — for other than broil and battle — from 
the dare-devils of "the dark and bloody ground?" 

Truth to say the Kentuckian is still something of a barbarian — ■ 
happily retaining most of the savage virtues — "a cross," as William 
Preston used to say, "between the Corsican and the shot-gun," whom 
the leaders of thought of this present time are trying to tame; to 
teach; to win over from the fields and reduce to proportion. It is 
no easy task; for the microbe of adventure is in his blood; the 
lure of the open; the love of sport; his book of books, his perfection 
of beauty and grace, his heart's desire, what other than his women 
and his thoroughbreds, for are they not the fairest and the fleetest 
in the world? 



OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY 33 

II. 

The Golden Jubilee of the University of Kentucky was an im- 
pressive affair. The ancient Bluegrass capital showed not merely 
"the mettle of the pastures," but the genius of an epoch and a race. 
Yet, reading the graphic story of the beloved President Emeritus, we 
learn how great and for a long time how doubtful a struggle was the 
movement after the War of Sections to set the wheels of education 
in Kentucky going again; how at every turning the Doctors had to 
meet the Dragons; until, at the end of half a century we have at 
last, thank God, a seat of learning not merely of which we may be 
proud, but which can hold its own with the best of them; having, as 
its great creator showed, idiosyncrasies altogether its own; distinctly 
American yet distinctly Kentuckian; "reflecting," to quote Dr. Patter- 
son verbatim, "the conditions under which it came into being, integ- 
rity of purpose, sincerity in profession, capability in action, thorough- 
ness in instruction, a delicate sense of honor the end and aim of its 
activity; the formation of character taking precedence of the pro- 
duction of wealth, the molding of manly men and womanly women, its 
conception of the best product of university life." 

Bravo, Dr. Patterson; that is the way we like to hear a Kentuck- 
ian and a scholar talk; and, likewise, bravo to the following, which 
we reproduce from the same eloquent and admirable address: 

"If the function of university life be to awaken and to direct 
mental activity, to create a desire for learning and to impart it, to 
arouse, as Huxley says, a fanaticism for truth, to cultivate and 
quicken and expand the human soul, to stimulate a passionate desire 
for the realization of the true, the beautiful and the good; if the 
highest end of education be to cultivate the mind for its own sake, 
believing that 'en earth there is nothing great but man, in man 
there is nothing great but mind,' to perfect through thinking the in- 
strument of thought, then President Hopkins and his appreci'ative 
pupil working together in a log cabin represent the nucleus and con- 
tain the germ of university life. 

"Brick and mortar and spacious grounds and well equipped 
laboratories do not make a university, but learned, eager, sympa- 
thetic teachers and earnest, capable, studious pupils. Can we in these 
days realize now and here the fundamental conception which made 
Mark Hopkins and his pupils famous and gave to Williams College 
a renown which has made it famous? 

"Can we and will we lay the foundation here of a distinct type 
of culture, physical and mental and moral, pronounced in its in- 
dividualism and cosmopolitan in its scope? Peculiar conditions of 
race, of tradition, of soil, of climate, of mountain and valley, of river 



34 FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

and hill and pUi'u, f.upply the basis, provide the germ out of which 
such a type maj and can te evolved. The University of Kentucky, 
if worthy of the name, will for all time mold the highest thought and 
shape the destiny of the Commonwealth. Progressive but not radical, 
conservative but not reactionary, may it be the guiding star of the 
State, the sheet anchor of hope, the fountain, the fons et origo of in- 
tegrity, of faith, of trust, of honor and of purity, with no blot on its 
escutcheon and with no stain of dishonor upon its shield." 

A Fanaticism for Truth goes directly to the heart of the Cour- 
ier-Journal, for that has been the only "fanaticism" it has ever in- 
dulged — the keynote of its being — the source at once of its popularity 
when it has pleased, of its contumely when it has displeased; and, in 
that connection, let us say that Dr. Patterson's recognition or the 
support it gave the University of Kentucky during and to the end of 
its sore travail — organized public sentiment outside the vicinage over- 
whelmingly against it — goes also to its heart; and, still further in 
the same connection, may it not recall that, when Cincinnati pro- 
posed to build a railway across Central Kentucky through Lexington 
to the South, and Louisville got on its hind legs to oppose and pre- 
vent it, the Courier-Journal threw itself into the breach for Cincin- 
nati, Lexington and the Charter? 

This is only to declare that the Courier-Journal knows no East, 
nor "West, nor North, nor South within the Kentucky boundary line. 
Bluegrass or Pennyrile — highland or lowland — to each and every Ken- 
tuckian its word has always been "Here's my heart and here's my 
hand." Old jealousies between the Falls City and the Acropolis of 
the Elkhorn were long ago buried, in proof of which — if proof were 
required — did not the Falls City part with the noblest of her sons — 
her well-beloved sons — when Henry Stites Barker, having signally 
served on the bench of the Court of Appeals and in the great post 
of Chief Justice of the Commonwealth, returned not to his home in 
Louisville, but went to make his home in Lexington and to succeed 
Doctor Patterson as President of the University of Kentucky? 



OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY 35 

FIFTY YEARS. 

Touch of sunshine, touch of shadow, 

Rainbow smiles and flitting tears; 
Life and love and youth exultant, 

Age but mellowed with the years; 
Portraits in the frame of Time, 

Gold and gray — October's haze — - 
Come; we'll paint the picture over; 

Memories of other days! 

Wine and waywardness and wassail, 

"Heaven," music and the dance; 
Patt Hall and the lawn where dimly 

Shone the warm lights of romance. 
Wondrous ladies, sweet, appealing; 

Satin, lavender and lace; 
Whispers lost in sighs that told 

Truest love in other days. 

Serenades beneath the window. 

White parades along the street. 
And the screechers in the bleachers 

When the Wildcat killed his meat. 
Cannon law and politics, 

Seniors with the mustache craze, 
Mathematics, chem and physics — 

Bitter-sweets of other days. 

Years of trial; years of triumph; 

Years of hope and high endeavor. 
Paint the picture — what a canvas — 

Life and love and youth forever! 
Fifty years — Kentucky calls you; 

Yours to censure or to praise. 
Welcome, welcome home again. 

To the joys of other days. 

(By William Shinnick, Shelby ville, editor Kentucky Kernel, stud- 
ent publication, and candidate for degree of A. B. in Journalism with 
Class of 1917.) 



36 FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 



INVITATION TO ALUMNI. 

By Enoch Grelian. 

To the Old Boys and Girls: 

YOU are Invited back home to the familiar scenes 
that made the golden days of the long ago im- 
mortal memories; days when you Illuminated 
the pages of college literature with the jewels of 
your wisdom and your wit; days Avhen you set the 
woods afire in Patt. Hall or Union Society with the flam- 
ing oratory of youth; days when you "cut class" and 
dodged He Patt as you wended your intellectual way- 
through the friendly gloom of the sheltering night from 
Bradley's Place to "the Old Dorm" with the college 
"growler" under your coat; days when if h — 1 broke 
loose in the "South End" and the boys decided to sweeten 
the utmosphere in the classic purlieus of "Old State" you 
were at the sweetening; days of puppy love and pov- 
e:ty, of barber's itch and celluloid collars, of socklessness 
end sin, of labor and triumph, of suffering and defeat; 
days when you indited sweet nothings to "her" who 
banished sleep and inspired dreams high-throned on peaks 
of fame with romance that lit the way with the light 1.1.' 
youthful love, then "made a monkey" of you by marrying 
a real man. 

This Jubilee day will be your day and ours. "Kitty," 
the coquette of the class, will be there, a little silver 
among the gold perhaps, doubtless purified by motherhood 
and exalted by sacrifice, but the same old "Kitty," loyal 
to the Blue and White and beautiful still. 

We invite you back to Kentucky hospitality, to the 
latch&tring dangling in the October Avind, to the corn and 
wine and burgoo and viands and good fellowship of a 
favored land. 

We promise soup and oratory in the morning. In the 
afternoon we serve Vanderbilt Football team to the Wild 
Cats "done brown" and natural enough for real life. At 
night we dance with the co-eds, the fairest, sweetest, 
saintliest of our time. 



OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY 37 



JUBILEE PROGRAM. 

The formal jubilee program as rendered in the chapel of the Uni- 
versity was as fellows: 

Presiding ...President Henry S. Barker 

Inyocation President R. H. Crossfield 

Address — "Education the Supreme Issue" ...President C. W. Dabney 

Address — "Fifty Years of University of Kentucky" 

President Emeritus James K. Patterson 
Presentation, for the Alumni, of James K. Patterson's Portrait 

to the University... Charles R. Brock 

Conferring of Honorary Degrees 

Presentation of Candidates for Honorary Degrees 
Henry Watterson John Letcher Patterson 

Thomas Hunt Morgan Charles William Dabney 

Richard Henry Crossfield James Kennedy Patterson 

Maldon Browning Adams William Goodell Frost 

Charles Robert Brock George Walter Stevens 

Ferdinand Brossart 
William Arthur Ganfleld 
James Levan Clark 

Dean F. Paul Anderson 

Presentation of ihe name of James K. Patterson for Honorary Degree 

Trustee Richard C. Stoll 

Degrees Conferred... President Henry S. Barker 

Benediction President W. A. Ganfleld 

Committee in Charge of Celebration 
F. Paul Anderson, Chairman 
Henry S. Barker H. D. Graham 

H. M. Froman J. Irvine Lyle 

R. C. Stoll W. L. Bronaugh 

G. G. Brock J. M. Graves 

Joseph H. Kastle J. D. Turner 

Arthur M. Miller R. M. Allen 

J. Frank Battaile L. B. Allen 



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CHRONOLOGY OF FESTIVAL EVENTS. 

October 13, 2.00 p. m. Tug of War. 

Alumni and Students "Get-to-gether." 
Student Dance in the Armory. 
Academic procession tlirough the city. 
Address: Pres. Chas. W. Dabney, University 
of Cincinnati. 

Address — Dr. Jas. K. Patterson. 
Address — Chas. R. Brock. 
Lunch and Burgoo on the Campus. 
Dedication of StoU Field — John T. Geary and 
Governor A. O. Stanley making the addresses 
Wild Cats vs. Vanderbilt (football). 
Fraternity Dances. 



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PRESIDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY DURING FIFTY YEARS. 



1. Jonn Augustus AVilliams. 

2. Joseph Pickett. 



.Tames Kennedy I'atterson. 
James Garrard "^Vhite. 



5. Henry Stiles Barker. 



OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY 39 

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY. 

This publication desires to acknowledge, in the preparation of 
these proceedings the very great assistance given by the Kentucky 
Magazine, Louisville-Lexington, through its historical account of the 
University, which was written by Marguerite McLaughlin, alumnae of 
the LTniversity, subsequently to the celebration. Permission has 
been given to reproduce from that copyrighted account the following 
excerpts: 

Fifty years mark the growth of the leading institution of learn- 
ing in the State, from a school, known as the Agricultural and Me- 
chanical College of Kentucky, with a campus of fifty acres, one class 
and office building, one dormitory, commandant's cottage and presi- 
dent's house, to a University offering courses of study in law, arts, 
science, mining, civil, electrical and mechanical engineering, educa- 
tion, economics, agriculture and military science; a campus of fifty 
acres with the addition of two hundred and fifty acres of the Experi- 
ment Station farm; two dormitories for men; one for women; a li- 
brary and about twelve buildings devoted to teaching, laboratory and 
research; and a teaching force of 100 men and women is employed 
to instruct the student body, which has increased to 1,200 

The story of the past fifty years celebrated by the Golden Jubilee 
begins when Kentucky University at Harrodsburg was joined with 
Transylvania University at Lexington and by majority vote of re- 
gents and curators, together with a special committee, named to 
determine a site, it was decided to establish in Lexington the institu- 
tion to which the Legislature allied the Agricultural and Mechanical 
College as a college. 

The opportunity for Kentucky University to take on larger life 
was foreseen by Regent John B. Bowman, and he recognized the ad- 
vantages offered by the rich history from which Transylvania had de- 
clined — the failure of an attempted combination of Transylvania with 
the Agricultural and Mechanical College, which was to be established 
as a result of the Morrill Act. This act gave to each state in the 
Union 30,000 acres of public land for each senator and representative 
in Congress, "for the endowment, support and maintenance of at 
least one college, where the leading object shall be, without exclud- 
ing other scientific and classical studies and including military tactics, 
to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and 
the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the states 
may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and prac- 
tical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and 
professional life 

When the smoke of the battles of the Civil War cleared away 



40 FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

the Southern people, who had given little thought to education dur- 
ing that terrible period, turned their faces toward the light of the 
coming day and smiled upon the possibilities of new teaching, new 
work, new life. Transylvania, with all its valuable assets, a fine old 
building, good library and chemical laboratory, was neither a college 
nor a university, but had an endowment of $60,000.00, together with 
large, spacious grounds. The alliance of the three forces was the 
logical end and followed promptly. The combination brought prestige 
to the State and appealed to the majority of the people. The project 
was pushed rapidly and vigorously, and the consolidation was accom- 
plished as a result of the concurrence of the trustees of Transyl- 
vania and the Curators of Kentucky University, and the assent of the 
Legislature, gained through Mr. Bowman, with the assistance of John 
B. Thompson, of Harrodsburg, who prepared and submitted to the 
General Assembly a bill which accomplished that purpose. 

Section 1 of that bill provides "That there shall be and is 
hereby established the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Ken- 
tucky, located in the county of Fayette, in or near the city of Lex- 
ington, which shall be a College of the Kentucky University." 

Section 2 provides that "those branches of learning related to 
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts" shall be taught and that "other 
ccientific and classical studies may he taught." 

Section 4 provides that in the selection of professors in the 
Agricultural and Mechanical College "no preference shall be shown 
to one sect or religious denomination over another" and that "all 
persons engaged in the conducting, governing, managing or controll- 
ing said college and its studies and exercises in all parts are hereby 
constituted officers and agents of the whole Commonwealth." . . . 

Doctor James K. Patterson. President Emeritus of the University 
of Kentucky, in an article written for the April number of The 
Alumnus points out that a subsequent act authorized the Sinking 
Fund Commissioners to sell the land script given by Congress to Ken- 
tucky, and that only $169,000 was realized as a result of the sale. 
The amount was then invested, according to Doctor Patterson, in six 
per cent, thirty year bonds issued by the State and maturing in 1895, 
the annual income from which amounted to $9,900 and was paid over 
to the curators of the University 'as long as the Agricultural and 
Mechanical College should continue to be one of the colleges of Ken- 
tucky University. A later act authorized "the Auditor of Public Ac- 
counts to draw his warrant upon the treasurer in favor of the treas- 
urer of the Board of Curators of Kentucky University for the sum 
of $2O,r0O, to aid in putting the Agricultural and Mechanical College 
into immediate operation, and on the payment of the foregoing sum 
the State shall be entitled to send to the said college, free of charge, 



OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY 41 

three pupils for each representative district. The State reserves 
the right to reimburse itself for the amount herein appropriated out 
of the interest 'arising from the sale of the land scrip donated by 
Congress." The united income thus accrued w^as $25,000, an amount 
equal to the united income of all other colleges in Kentucky, at that 
time, and the field of the new institution, through the failure of 
many other Southern schools, extended over the South, Southwest 
and a large portion of the West. 

In accordance with the requirements of the Legislature, Mr. 
Bowman set out to secure the experimental farm for the agricultural 
college, and within three months the requisite amount was raised 
and the Ashland estate, the former home of Henry Clay, containing 
320 acres, was purchased for the sum of $90,000, and within a few 
weeks the property known as "Woodlands" was added to the original 
purchase. "Woodlands" contained 120 acres, lying between Ashland 
and the city limits, and was bought for $40,000 

Doctor Patterson writes th'at the money subscribed was payable 
in four equal annual installments and that, inasmuch as the vendors 
were unwilling to take the subscription in payment of the land sold, 
Mr. Bowman assumed the obligation, met out of his own resources 
the deferred payments as they matured and took the title to him- 
self, with the expressed intention of transferring the property when 
all the money subscribed had been collected; and thus the obligations 
were met and Kentucky University was ready to begin work in the 
"autumn of 1866. 

The courses of study offered were in the College of Arts and 
Science, located on- the grounds of Transylvania in Morrison Chapel, 
and the College of Law located in the same building. The work in 
the Agricultural and IMechanical College was offered on the Wood- 
lands estate, and the old Tilford mansion was used for academic stud- 
ies. Cottages Liuilt on the Woodlands and 'at Ashland furnished dor- 
niitory and club room accommodations for the students. Courses in 
the College of the Bible were offered at Transylvania. 

John B. Bowman was unanimously elected regent of the institu- 
tion by the University Senate, which was composed of all the pro- 
fessors and principal instructors of the several colleges of the 
University. Mr, Bowman was not required to teach. He would ac- 
cept no salary, but, on conditions determined by him and on the 
persuasion of the Board of Trustees, he consented to occupy the 
Ashland residence and to enjoy certain privileges urged upon him by 
his grateful co-workers. He entertained distinguished visitors and 
dispensed the hospitality of the institution. He is said to have pos- 
sessed a remarkable charm and grace of manner and great dignity. 



42 FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

and, while he was not a professional scholar, he was well educated 

and his executive ability was exceptional 

The course offered at the opening of the year 1867-68 was in- 
creased to include a commercial course, and arrangements were com- 
pleted with the HoUingsworth Commercial College by which full in- 
struction was gi\en in those branches essential to thorough business 
training. 

In Regent Bowman's report, June, 1867, he stated that 500 stud- 
ents were matriculated during the previous year in all the colleges, 
and that the work was a great success, gathering, as it did, matricu- 
lates from Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Arkansas, Iowa, West Vir- 
ginia, Alabama, Georgia. Illinois, Indiana. Missouri, New York. Louis- 
iana. Maryland. South Carolina, North Carolina, California, Canada, 
and New ]\fexico. The relationship of the University and the com- 
munity in which it was located was pleasant, the warmest sympathy 
and co-operation were manifested, and the name of the institution was 
gaining favor throughout the country 

The first club in the history of the University was the "Ashland 
Eaiching Club," composed of sixteen students who occupied at Ash- 
land a cottage with a dining room and kitchen attached. Food sup- 
plies for the club were raised by the members on the farm, and the 
students were accredited for their labor. The cost of living was re- 
duced to $1.50 a man for a week. The business, professional and so- 
cial meetings of the club were held on Friday night. Military con- 
trol was extended to the club houses, and a regular system of inspec- 
tio7i and police was maintained by an orderly in each building. 

The Mechanical Department was partly organized during the 
year 1867-1868, and temporary shops for carpenters, wagonmakers 
and blacksmiths were fitted up. A costly steam engine was donated 
to the University by Colonel William T. Grainger of Louisville, and 
a machine shop was added to the departmental buildings. 

In the second year of its existence the Law College graduated a 
class of sixteen young men, and the question of a summer school 
was considered and deferred until the faculty and Executive Commit- 
tee held their June meeting. Professor A. R. Millig'an resigned as 
principal of the academy in November, 1867, and was succeeded by 
Professor G. W. Ranck. 

Regent Bowman made a strong appeal for the establishing of a 
normal and medical school in June, 1868, and declared that he needed 
one million dollars for new buildings. 

Mr. Williams resigned as president of the Agricultural and 
Mechanical College and was succeeded by J. D. Pickett, who acted as 
president pro tempore until June, 1869 

Professor James Kennedy Patterson, up to this time teacher of 



OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY 43 

Latin Language and Literature in the College of Arts and Science, 
and of Civil History and Political Economy in the Agricultural and 
Mechanical College, hecame President of the entire institution and 
held the chair during the changes of organization that followed until 
1911, a. period of forty-five years. 

Transylvania Medical College of Kentucky University was estab- 
lished in September, 1873, affording a thorough and comprehensive 
course of study for nine months annually, and a complete and able 
faculty was elected. The benefits of instruction in classical, scientific 
and technical departments were given to medical students. The 
faculty members were Dr. James M. Bush and W. O. Sweeney, School 
of Surgery and Anatomy; W. S. Chipley, School of Physiology and 
Hygiene; Joseph Smith, School of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women 
and Children; Robert Peter, School of Chemistry and Toxicology. 
The graduates of the University in 1873 numbered forty-four, and the 
degree of Master of Arts was conferred on Henry Warland White, of 
Lexington 

In the year 1873 patronage of the University decreased to 556 
students. The chief reason assigned for this condition was that since 
the years succeeding the Civil War every state in the Union except 
Kentucky moved forward, with great liberality on the part of legis- 
lators and private citizens, in adding to the land grant given by the 
government. Internal dissension in management and anxiety caused 
by the two dreaded diseases, smallpox and meningitis, which caused 
the death of students, were given as additional embarrassments to 
progress. 

The connection of the Agricultural and Mechanical College with 
Kentucky University continued until 1878, when the act of 1865, mak- 
ing it one of the colleges of the University, was repealed and a com- 
mission appointed to recommend to the legislature of '79-80 a plan 
of organization for an agricultural and mechanical college such as 
the necessities of the Commonwealth required. The commission was 
authorized to recommend to the General Assembly the place, which, 
all things considered, offered the best and greatest inducements for 
the future and permanent location of the college. The city of Lex- 
ington offered the City Park, containing fifty-two acres of land, 
within the limits of the city and $30,000 in city bonds for the erec- 
tion of buildings. This offer the county supplemented by $20,000 in 
county bonds, to be used either for the erection of buildings or for 
the purchase of land. The offers of the city and county were accepted 
by the General Assembly 

The Agricultural and Mechanical College was, by action of the 
General Assembly of '79 separated from Kentucky University, of 
which it had been a college, and was thenceforth to be governed by 



44 FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

the Board of Visitors appointed by the Governors. It remained om 
the Ashland and Woodlands estate until permanently located on the- 
City Park site. The sole and exclusive use of 100 acres of land of 
the Ashland and Woodlands properties, and for every matriculate 

more than 100. one additional acre, was allowed 

In 1879-1880 the matriculates numbered 113 from Kentucky, and 
the remaining 23 were from other states. 

The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky opened 
for its first session September 8, 1879, with James Kennedy Patterson 
president and professor of metaphysics, civil history and political 
economy; Robert Peter, professor of chemistry and experimental 
philosophy; John Shakleford, Jr., professor of English language and 
literature; James G. White, professor of mathematics, mechanics and 
astronomy, and Maurice Kirby, principal of the Normal School. The 
Board of Visitors appointed by Governor James B. McCreary was 
composed of Hon. J. P. Metcalfe, Lexington, chairman; Col. W. C. 
P. Breckinridge, Lexington, Secretary; Judge W. B. Hoke, Louis- 
ville; Col. L. J. Bradford, Covington; Hugh A. Moran, Richmond, and 

C. A. Hardin, Harrodsburg 

The site of the City Park, which had formerly been the fair 
grounds, was elevated and commanded a good view of the city. 
Plans were made for the erection of a new college building, contain- 
ing a chapel, society rooms, lecture and recitation rooms sufficient 
for the accommodation of 500 students. The land extended south on 
Limestone and east on Winslow streets, and the natural conformation 
of the ground and an abundant water supply from the old Maxwell 
spring rendered the construction of an artificial lake, with a boating 
course a quarter of a mile long, comparatively easy, thus providing 
a beautiful sheet of Avater to add to the attractiveness of the land- 
scape. 

Henry Watterson delivered the dedicatory speech when the main 
building and dormitory were completed and the institution was 
moved to its present location in March, 1882. The session of 1882- 
1883 marked the beginning of life in new surroundings. Mrs. B. F. 
Ryland, the first woman connected with the College, became matron 
in 1883, and Mrs. Lucy Berry Blackburn was assistant in the Academy 
from '87 to '93. and monitress from 1893 to 1911. 

In 1885 the State College of Kentucky established the Experi- 
mental Agricultural Station in close relation with the Bureau of 
Agriculture at Washington and appointed as director thereof Profes- 
sor M. A. Scovell, formerly superintendent of the United States Ex- 
perimental Station at Ottowa, Kansas. Associated with him were 
Dr. Robert Peter, general chemist; Professor A. R. Crandall, botany. 



OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY 45 

zoology, and entomology, and Professor A. E. Menke, agriculture and 
organic chemistry and veterinary science. 

The popularity of the several departments offered to prospective 
students was attracting attention, and it was necessary to build at 
this time, just one year after the organization of the department, a 
building for the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineer- 
ing, and the course of study was increased and improved by Profes- 
sor Anderson, who drew to his force with other scholars, engineers 
and artists, Joseph Dicker, who during his twenty-five years of ser- 
vice has been associated with the growth of the institution and with 
Its success. The building now occupied by the Mechanical and 
-Electrical Engineering College was completed and dedicated in 1892. 

The name of the institution was changed to State University in 
1908, and the College of Law was established, with W. T. Lafferty, 
who had formerly been comptroller and discharged the duties of the 
•office until 1916, as dean of the new College. Associated with him 
rare Judge Lyman Chalkley, Reuben Hutchcraft, Judge Charles Kerr, 
•James R. Bush, J. Embry Allen and George Vaughn. 

January 15, 1910, James Kennedy Patterson, president of the 
Agricultural and Mechanical College since its independent existence, 
resigned the position and became President Emeritus of the Univer- 
■sity. During the interim that followed Professor James E. White, 
Trice-president and Dean of Men, acted as president. 

The last of the students enrolled in the Academy graduated in 
1911, and the Academy passed into history, removing the last vestige 
-of preparatory methods from the curriculum 

Henry Stites Barker was elected president of the University at 
this period of its progress, and the several Colleges of Mechanical 
iand Electrical Engineering, Mining Engineering, Civil Engineering, 
Arts and Science, Law, and Agriculture were placed under the direc- 
tion of deans. Miss Anna J. Hamilton became Dean of Women and 
assistant on the English faculty, and Professor Melcher became Dean 
of Men. Miss Aubyn Chinn v/as placed in charge of the department of 
"home economics. With the abolition of the academy and the building 
Tip of the several colleges and numerous departments, the institution 
became known as the University of Kentucky, and by the action of 
the late Legislature it now enjoys that title legally. 

Professor Joseph H. Kastle, an alumnus and former professor 
-of chemistry, returned to the faculty in 1912 and was made dean of 
the College of Agriculture and director of the Experiment Station in 
1913, succeeding the former director and dean. Professor M. A. Sco- 
ville, whose death occurred August 15, 1912, and whose life had been 
■devoted to the upbuilding of scientific agriculture in the State. 



